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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
(a) Whites identifying with his black characters.
(b) The history of blacks in America.
(c) Blacks criticizing his characters.
(d) Europeans taking his books as true indications of life in America.

2. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) A political agenda.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

3. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.
(b) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.
(c) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.
(d) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.

4. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) It repairs the connection with Africa.
(b) It forms the basis for pan-Africanism.
(c) It asserts the kinship of cultural forms.
(d) It hides the differences between black experiences.

5. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?
(a) Black power.
(b) Black pacifism.
(c) Pan-Africanism.
(d) Muslim militarism.

6. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
(a) Monotheist.
(b) Relativist.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Essentialist.

7. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
(a) Because he moved away from the U.S.
(b) Because he was pigeon-holed as a sexist.
(c) Because Wright was so ambivalent in his writing.
(d) Because he has been misinterpreted.

8. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?
(a) Oil.
(b) Sustainability.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Race.

9. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Exogamy.
(c) Racial heterogeneity.
(d) Inbreeding.

10. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?
(a) To build bridges to white culture.
(b) To recognize that their culture is part of a larger cultural development.
(c) To make peaceful relations with Jews.
(d) To accept their place in Western civilization.

11. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) In his world travels.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) In the American south.

12. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Political autonomy.
(b) Black music.
(c) Returning to Africa.
(d) Black self-reliance.

13. What does the concept of the diaspora help with in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Providing historical context for black music.
(b) Unifying black cultures.
(c) Returning black music to its sources.
(d) Differentiating between black cultures.

14. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
(a) The numbness to human suffering that comes from modernism.
(b) The destructive potential of bureaucracies.
(c) The limits of rationality.
(d) The murderous potential in technology.

15. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Deny it.
(b) Commercialize it.
(c) Repossess it.
(d) Escape it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?

2. What does music represent, according to Gilroy?

3. What is the aim of Chapter 6?

4. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?

5. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

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